Grade 4 Overall Expectations:
Movement Skills and Concepts
Perform a variety of controlled static balances, using a variety of body parts and shapes, at different levels, individually, and with partners and equipment
- 10 Ways to Play Catch With a Friend (Website)
- Cooperative Skills Challenge Stations (Website)
- 6 Agility, Balance & Coordination Tasks (YouTube)
- Kids Ninja Balance Workout (YouTube)
Demonstrate the ability to jump and land, in control, from a low height
- Weeklong Calendar of Activities: Jumping and Landing (Website)
- 4 Exercises to Jump Higher (YouTube)
- Jumping Techniques (YouTube)
- “Frog Jump Relay” Challenge (YouTube)
- Jump Rope Basics (YouTube)
Perform different combinations of locomotor movements with and without equipment, alone and with others, moving at different speeds and levels, using different pathways, and going in different directions
- Fitness Jenga (Website)
- Locomotor Shapes Activity (Website)
- Sidewalk Obstacle Course with Chalk (Website)
- Tai Chi for Beginners (YouTube)
- Basic Folk Dance Steps (YouTube)
- German Folk Dance (YouTube)
- Locomotion Movement for Sports (YouTube)
Send and receive objects of a variety of shapes and sizes at different levels and speeds, using different body parts and equipment, while applying basic principles of movement
- Catch! 10 Ways to Play (Website)
- How to Throw a Ball (YouTube)
- Bop it Challenge (YouTube)
- Youth Running Arm Action (YouTube)
- Baseball Catching Skills & Drills for Youth Players (YouTube)
- Scarf Juggling Basics (Beginner) (YouTube)
Retain objects of various shapes and sizes in different ways, using different body parts, with and without equipment , while moving around others and equipment
- Relay Races for Kids (Website)
- Soccer Ball Tag (YouTube)
- Basic Dribbling and Crossovers (YouTube)
- Sports Conditioning with Soccer Ball (YouTube)
- Basic Ball Apparatus Handling for Rhythmic Gymnastics (YouTube)
Movement Strategies
Demonstrate an understanding of the basic components of physical activities and apply this understanding as they participate in a variety of physical activities
- Sportsmanship (Book)
- Sportsmanship (Hoopla eBook)
- How to Compete in Sports (Website)
- Traffic Lights Soccer Game (Website)
- Throwing and Catching a Frisbee (Website)
- Group Juggling (Website)
- Pow Wow Dancing Styles and Meanings (YouTube)
- Sportsmanship (YouTube)
- 10 Hula Hoop Games and Activities (YouTube)
Identify common features of specific categories of physical activities, and identify common strategies and tactics that they found effective while participating in a variety of physical activities in different categories
- Standards Based Games (Website)
- Most Effective Warm Up Routine (YouTube)
- Hand Eye Coordination PE Activities (YouTube)
- Balance PE Activities (YouTube)
- Agility and Speed PE Activities (YouTube)
Apply a variety of tactical solutions to increase their chances of success as they participate in physical activities
- Throw Archery (Website)
- Race to the Bases (Website)
- 4 Breathing Exercises for Swimming (YouTube)
- How to Teach Jump Rope Tricks in PE (YouTube)